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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
4
Local notes report a creamery planned for Mariah Hill and ongoing Southern Railway excursion rates to Indiana Illinois and Kentucky. Trains connect Louisville Evansville Huntingburg and Jasper with Weaver's Hack Line aiding transfers. Old papers for sale and a stern town moral code from Quincy Labor News cap the item.
Notice to citizens of Ferdinand that a 21 year old resident for 90 days will apply at the Dubois County commissioners August term 1906 for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in quantities under 4 quarts for one year from license date. Premises described as a 20 by 24 seat room on ground floor of a two story frame building at the southwest corner of lot 122 opening onto Ohio Street and Indiana Street.
A long list notes Charlie Metzger returning from Louisville and many locals visiting Ferdinand and surrounding towns. It records travels to Zanesville Evansville St Meinrad St Anthony and Chicago along with weddings dances and many visits among Beckmann and related families. It closes with a commentary urging support for home merchants over foreign buyers.
The article warns readers about Cheap John businesses and confidence schemes spread nationwide. It likens them to three card monte and shell games, urging caution as smooth talkers and helpers lure gullible people into inferior goods and costly travel schemes.
A missing small leather purse contains about $65 to $75 in currency, a $59.11 check from National Biscuit Co, and several receipts from New York Life Insurance Co. Reward is offered to the finder who returns it to J. A. Sondermann Ferdinand, Ind or R. C. Brown.
Italy considers reviving papyrus cultivation along the Anapo in Sicily with a government monopoly on papyrus farming and a factory to produce currency paper. Bank notes printed on papyrus would be hard to forge, giving the government and public a potential security and monetary advantage.
The article explains clay pencil production from plumbago mining to lead shaping. It covers grinding plumbago with clay, adjusting ratios for hard or soft pencils, thinning with water, forming a dough, extruding through holes, laying strands to dry, tempering the leads by red heat, and final pairing with wooden casings.
The crescent shaped Viennese bread is traced to 1683 during the siege of Vienna by Kara Mustafa. As the Ottomans failed to capture the city by assault they dug a tunnel under the wall. Night and day noise affected tunneling visibility and defense.
The text notes permission for a cake shaped like the Turkish crescent as a reward for service. It extols corn and edible plant growth with tips on soil types for Redtop, parsley varieties, and the value of wood ashes for lettuce. It emphasizes neat planting rows, seed drills, and continued garden care as sources of pleasure and progress.
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